Lowering the front of the Dajiban!
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2021
- My setup to fit 32" tires on 17" wheels. Current setup is 245/65/17, my future/ideal setup will be 245/75/17 A/T. I'm going with 32" tires to preserve/lower my RPMs for highway cruising, not to achieve the lowest of the lows.
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I want to try Dajiban. I really do. But I like the Fords alot more. The problem with older Econoline is you can't really lower them unless you spend big bux. Ironically I am a Chrysler trained tech from the 90's. I have this image in my mind of buying a pre smog (In CA) dodge shorty, updating its front sheet metal to 1994-ish and add a hotrod 318 which I already have, an LSD with really wide fat tires that I tuck under ZG flares. Maybe when this whole pandemic is over....
A100!
I should come by your place and lower my bus. You know..... teach me how along the way. Lol
Bus?? Lol I don't know much about buses...
Although the Vanagon and Eurovan had rear springs, but torsion bar fronts, so you'd have to loosen those up to get some lowering. The bus is a bit different though, best accomplished with drop spindles and the rear arm clocked. We have an Air Coolers VW Gang up in the Antelope Valley, not sure where you are. But if you are up that way you should get in touch with them on Facebook or aircoolers.org.
Looks good so far. We'll see how the 7390s work with my 15x75/235s but good to know there is a spacer in case the tires rub.
You should be golden on those tires no rubbing
Bro I did a flip kit on the leaf springs on the back and now I have to do the front
I got those 7390s but how do you take apart the control arms just undo the cotter pins and king nuts ?
I can’t find any step by step just to replace the coil spring
White 95 shorty 318
You don't have to take apart the control arms. I mean, you could do it that way, but the way I do it is to undo the upper ball joint, remove brake caliper, swing the spindle out of the way, raise the upper control arm so you have access to the shock top nut, undo that and remove shock, loosen strut rod nut (at the frame), undo bolts holding strut rod onto lower control arm, then push down on the lower control arm until you can twist the spring out. I'm not sure exactly if the 95 model is the same way (I'm more familiar with the 98-03 models) but it should be similar. I have a video coming up about it specifically, but you can also check the video about ball joints and you should see how it's done from beginning to end
My van is a 1500 and see you use heavier coil springs and wondered why? Im wondering about the harsher ride of a one ton spring.
Coil springs? So you're referring to the front? To lower it. In the back I use 1ton leaf springs to gain back a little bit of ride height after flipping the axle and also for the stiffer ride. The stiffer ride helps with preventing the van from bottoming out on the differential, since I did not cut a tunnel for clearance. The 1500 springs are pretty bouncy and I personally don't like that. I added add-a-leaf springs to the 1ton spring pack to make it even stiffer and now it rides like a passenger car instead of a truck. It's really up to your personal preference. I'm used to ricers so I tend to like harsher/stiffer rides--it lets me feel the road more
Why do you have that plastic cover around the rim ? those holes in the rim are designed to cool your brakes and when you cover them up you defeat the purpose
Plastic cover? You mean the thing in the center? That comes stock to cover the hub. Otherwise, I have a solid wheel/no spokes